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Caballero Aguila Street PaintingStreet painting photos of 'Caballero Aguila' at Festival Bella Via 08 in Monterrey, Mexico. The street painting was created by the team of Cuong Nguyen, Anthony Cappetto, and Marina Escamilla, as a tribute to Mexican artist Jesus Helguera, who created the original art in 1956.

Artisphere International Arts Festival 2008 Photo Album3-D street painting 'Koi Pond' from Rod Tryon and traditional 2D reproduction of 'Mount Parnassus' by street painting artist Hani Shihada.
The street paintings were created for the Artisphere International Arts festival in Greeenville, South Carolina from April 18th through April 20th , 2008.

That being said, now on to where Blog Now will be going this year in 2012...

Wendy and I wish to apologize to our readers for being quiet during the last part of 2011. We admit that we have been very involved with a series of street painting art projects with our other company, Art for After Hours which has kept us particulary busy. While we were in the midst of these activities, we gave serious thought as to how we wanted to make Blog Now even better and more engaging than we have had before. And this is what we are thinking...

Starting this week, Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is moving to posting daily with posts, discussion, and thoughts about street painting art, festivals, and observed developments which we see as our way of sharing our appreciation and attention relevant to a blog such as ours that is "..for artists, festivals, and fans..."

Watch very soon for Blog Nows posting on the winners at the Festival Bella Via 2011, but also short posts about the many artists who created work for the festival who are the backbone of such exciting international street painting art competitions such as this.

There will also be similar coverage short posts from events that we have attended in Saarasota, FL as well as events coming up this year in the USA, Mexico, and Europe through local reporters on the scene, and of course our level, journalistic coverage of festival directors and industry professionals in all locations.

Pictured above: We noticed this street painting at the Sarasota Chalk Festival and we recalled the life of Toto de Angelis (Straccetto) who left us in 2011. His experience as a Madonnaro in the true sense is an inspiration to every one of us who all who street paint, chalk, screeve anywhere in the world today.

Have a very Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year from Wendy and I at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv.

April 05, 2011

Festival Bella Via - "Estaciones del Via Crucis 2011" (Stations of the Cross) exhibition will take place in Monterrey, Mexico, during April 21 to 24, 2011. To celebrate Semana Santa (Holy Week) and the Passion of Christ, madonnari will be creating an exhibition of 15 works of classical art. These chalk reproductions will be drawn by previous Festival Bella Via winners. The exhibition will take place at the Explanada de los Heroes, in front of the Governor's Palace. The public is welcome to attend.

February 16, 2011

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is happy to let our readers know that a new group of street painting artist interviews and extended festival highlights are available to see on the streetpainting.tv street painting video channels on YouTube, livestream, and the streetpainting.tv video site.

Something new that we are doing is presenting video walkthroughs of parts of the festival to give our viewers a look of the event itself. There are new, extended videos of the Renaissance, Free Theme, and Qualificati areas narrated by Wendy or Anthony. Streetpainting.tv has coverage of the Festival conclusion featuring the awards ceremony for the competition winners from Festival Bella Via.

January 06, 2011

2011 is going to be a time of growing in the world of street painting art with newer festivals become part of the street painting landscape along with a new generation of street painting artists making their mark on the scene.

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is happy to be reaching out to festival directors, street painting artists, and the growing fan base around the world discovering our 400 year old plus art form in the world of new media and technologies in a partnership - not a competition - with the live viewing experience one can only have by attending a street painting festival in your area, wherever that might be.

As streetpainting.tv, Wendy and I have been so glad to be part of street painting to interview many artists over the years in Monterrey, Mexico at Festival Bella Via and making new friends in street painting at the Sarasota Chalk Festival last October. We are working on interview videos with artists from Monterrey and Sarasota and plan to have even more videos up and running on the websites and online sources of streetpainting.tv. We can be seen on our streetpainting.tv branded site/channels on YouTube, Facebook Fan Page,Twitter, Livestream and plan to spread into the fabric of social networking and mobility to bring street painting art to as many as possible in the ways that work best for our growing base of viewers with a library closing in on 300 videos and counting.

We are supportive of all the new festivals arising in Europe, around the rest of the world, and across the USA. Streetpainting.tv will be happy to bring our unique one on one interviewing (thanks to Wendy) to any interested festivals anywhere who will be glad to have us on the media team.

Of course, we have not forgotten the festivals that have brought street painting to popularity before the advent of our current internet age such as the festivals of California, such as the I Madonnari in Santa Barbara, and the Italian Street Painting Festival by Youth in Arts in San Rafael and the many others in the USA such as the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival in Florida, the Via Colori Festivals, and the many others across the country.

And then there is Italy, where the art of the Madonnari began, the home of the Competition at Grazie which brought Madonnari together from 1972 after it was thought the art form may have begun to fade away. The importance and tradition of the Italian festivals and the longtime Madonnari is clear and in our respect, a special thanks to our fellow street painters from Italy who bring material for posts to us during the year.

Thanks to all, especially our readers for being a part of our blog and video channel in 2010 and we hope to bring as much street painting to you as we can in 2011.

November 30, 2010

Street painter Anthony Cappetto was asked to create a Holiday-themed street painting for the 'Making Merry in Berry Hill' holiday event in Nashville, TN. His 8' x 18' piece took him 2 1/2 days to complete and was the centerpiece of the event! The people of Berry Hill (a section of Nashville) really enjoyed watching him work as well as the finished 3D anamorphic street painting.

Blog Now on Streetpainting.tv wishes all of our readers a very Happy Holiday Season!

November 05, 2010

Festival Bella Via 2010 in Monterrey, Mexico, was a huge success with lots of pretty stunning artwork this year! The festival is part competition and part exhibition. The competition levels start with Semplici, which is the first level you have to win in to get to the next higher level, the Qualificati level. The Semplici level is split into 2 categories - Renaissance and Free Theme.

We are going to start with the Renaissance Category Winners. And they are...